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On the Discovery of a Flint-Working Site of Palæolithic Date in the Medway Valley at Rochester, Kent, with Notes on the Driftstages of the Medway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

W. H. Cook  and
J. R. Killick
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Following the Medway northward as it leaves the Weald at the opening of the funnel-shaped gorge in the Chalk, near Snodland, it takes a general N.E. course as far as Rochester, (Fig. 1.)

Less than half a mile below Rochester bridge it is turned eastward, perhaps by some hard beds in the chalk; then a S.E. course is followed for a mile, when turning again, opposite Chatham, it runs due N. for another two miles. Reaching the London Clay hills at Upnor it is again deflected, and finally, meandering in an easterly direction through the low alluvial plains, reaches the Thames estuary.

Thus the course of the Medway opposite Rochester takes the form of a V-shaped bend, and the land flanking the river within the bend forms a promonitory of chalk jutting southward, the surface of which rises from the edge of the marshes on either side to a height above 100-ft. O.D. (Fig. 2.)

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1924 , pp. 133 - 154
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1924

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